AUTHORS REPRESENTED BY CAROLINE WOOD

FRANCESCA BRILL is a screenwriter whose first novel The Harbour has been acquired by Bloomsbury. It’s a passionate love story set in Hong Kong between 1940 & 1945 at the time of the Japanese invasion. Bloomsbury will publish in spring 2012.

LUCY CAVENDISH is a well-known journalist and writes regularly for The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph and The Independent. Her first novel Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal was published by Michael Joseph in spring 2008 to excellent reviews. Her second novel in the same series, Lost and Found, was published in March 2009 and Michael Joseph have commissioned a third, to be published in 2010. Lucy is currently working on her fourth novel, a stand-alone romantic comedy entitled The Broken-Hearted Wives Club.  With five other women writers she has put together The Leap Year, a collection of their short stories, published under Queenbee Press.

NATASHA FARRANT is the author of two successful novels for adults, Diving Into Light and Some Other Eden, both published by Transworld. She is currently working on her first YA novel, a love story set in WW2, called The Angel of Samaroux. Natasha is also a scout for children’s books for a number of European and American publishers. Caroline represents Natasha for her adult fiction.

JAMES FEARNLEY is the accordionplayer and a founding member of The Pogues, the cult band that injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music.  James's memoir Here Comes Everybody has been bought by Faber & Faber and is the story of how a seemingly odd assembly of vagabonds, artists and poets living in squats around King's Cross in the early 1980s were transformed through a love of music from strangers into friends.  Faber have bought World rights and will publish in early 2011.

CATHERINE HALL's first novel, Days of Grace, tells the story of Nora Lynch, a young girl evacuated from London to a vicarage in Kent during World War II, and is narrated from the perspective of Nora in the present who is dying and trying to make amends for the sins she committed in the past.  Portobello Books published it in 2009 to glittering reviews.  It was selected by Waterstones for their New Voices promotion in Spring 2009, by W.H.Smith for their Fresh Talent promotion 2010 and Catherine was also selected by Amazon as one of their Rising Stars.  Viking bought the US rights for a substantial sum.  Catherine is currently working on her second novel The Proof of Love, which has also been bought by Portobello Books.

ANN HARRIES has written two novels both published by Bloomsbury, Manly Pursuits and No Place for a Lady. Manly Pursuits won the Author’s Club first novel award. She is close to completing her third novel entitled The Two Hearts of Louis Washkansky, a fictional account of the drama leading up to the first heart transplant in South Africa in 1967, by celebrity surgeon Christiaan Barnard.

SADIE JONES is a screenwriter whose stunning debut novel The Outcast won the 2008 Costa Book Awards First Novel category and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. It has sold over 400,000 copies and was the bestselling debut fiction paperback in 2008.  Set in 1950s England, it is a dark, mysterious coming of age story with the page-turning quality of a thriller. Published to terrific reviews and broadcast as a Radio Four Book at Bedtime, it has has sold in over twenty territories.  Sadie's next novel Small Wars has also been published by Chatto.

LIZA KLAUSSMANN has worked as a journalist for The New York Times since 2001. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Barnard College, Columbia University where she was awarded the Howard M. Teichman Prize for Prose. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, receiving a distinction. She is currently working on her first novel entitled Tigers in Red Weather.

SIMON LELIC's brilliant debut novel, Rupture, attracted a huge amount of attention from competing publishers, with Maria Rejt beating off five other houses to publish as a Picador lead title in early 2010.  As the aftermath of a terrible crime unfolds each witness to the events of that particular day tells their story to the only person committed to uncovering the truth.  'It is a tour de force of storytelling,' Rejt says, 'and marks the debut of a great new voice in literary fiction.'  The book has sold in ten territories and is shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association John Creasey Dagger 2010. Simon's new novel The Facility will be published by Macmillan in 2011. www.simonlelic.com

COLM O’GORMAN is Director of Amnesty International in Ireland. He is also the founder of One In Four, an Irish charity that supports women and men who have experienced sexual abuse. He has made two documentaries for the BBC: ‘Suing the Pope’ and ‘Sex Crimes and the Vatican’ for Panorama. He is a well-known figure in the Irish media and has received numerous awards for his campaigning and charity work. Hodder paid a substantial sum for World English language rights to his memoir Beyond Belief, which recounts his experience of sexual abuse by a priest, Father Sean Fortune, and his battle to force the Church to admit its knowledge and cover-up of this abuse.  The book was published in May 2009 and went straight to No. 1 in Ireland.

PENNY RUDGE graduated from Cambridge University in 1992 where she won the P D James & John Treherne prizes for creative writing. She has just completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, for which she received a distinction. Her first novel, Foolish Lessons in Life and Love, is published by Jenny Parrot at Little, Brown, who describes it as “a wonderful and blackly comic first novel from a young British writer of tremendous promise.”

EDWARD RUSSELL-WALLING is a freelance writer and editor who specialises in business and finance and contributes regularly to publications such as the Financial Times, New Statesman and The Banker.  Quercus published his first book 50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know, which aims to demystify many of the business theories and buzz-words that the 'man in the street' may have heard of but find puzzling. The book came out in October 2007 in the US and in April 2008 in the UK and has sold in 11 foreign territories.  Edward’s second book, The House of Money, traces the history of banking through the stories of the great banking families, starting with the Medici.  Atlantic Books have acquired world rights.

PHYLLIDA THOMPSON (LAW) is a well-loved actress whose first book Notes to My Mother-in-Law sold at auction to Fourth Estate.  It's a collection of the notes she wrote to her mother-in-law when the latter was living with her and becoming increasingly deaf.  It is a witty, charming gift book that has also been beautifully illustrated by Phyllida. 

MARTIN WALKER is Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think-tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington. He worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper for 25 years, where he served as bureau chief in Moscow and the US, and as European Editor. His books include The Cold War: A History, short-listed for Britain’s book of the year prize and for Canada’s Governor-General’s prize, and named by the New York Times as “a notable book of the year.” He also wrote The President They Deserve; the rise, falls and comebacks of Bill Clinton, and The Waking Giant: Gorbachev and Perestroika, which was translated into 11 languages, and Martin Walker’s Russia, which became a BBC series. His most recent books include Makers of the American Century and The Iraq War.  His historical novel The Caves of Perigord  reached number eight on the Washington Post best-seller list. He is currently writing a series of crime novels in the vein of Alexander McCall Smith set in deepest rural France entitled Bruno, Chief of Police. The first six books in the series have been bought by Quercus in the UK and a number of other foreign publishers. brunochiefofpolice.com